New Asia Cinema 2017: Fashion. The 13th annual installment of this semester-long international series explores the complexities of costume and spectacle, style and identity, creativity and subversion, and labor and consumerism.

Isenberg School of Management, 137 (Flavin Family Auditorium)

In a tradition of hosting challenging exhibitions organized by student curators, the UMCA presents an exhibition of African art drawn from the collection of Charles Derby, a UMass alumnus who has been collecting since the 1970s alongside an exhibition of painted flags of Africa by the renowned African American artist Fred Wilson.

Chadbourne House, B-3

The African Francophone Film Festival serves as a vehicle to engender confidence in individuals interested in experiencing cinema of the French speaking African continent and the French speaking African Diaspora.

Student Union, Cape Cod Lounge

The Play Lab is a crucible for new work. A professional playwright and a UMass student playwright will be given the opportunity this fall for workshop productions of their newest plays — works that represent fresh voices, big ideas, and envelope-pushing modes of storytelling.

December 1, 201710:00 am-1:00 pm

Campus Center, Concourse

Rack City is a student run thrift shop that strives to combine equity, economy and the environment.We promote secondhand clothing because it avoids unethical practices from fast fashion and cheap clothing, and we provide affordable clothing options for all community members.

December 1, 20173:00 pm-8:00 pm

Opening reception for "Who Am I to Feel So Free?," which showcases the works of 13 artists currently enrolled in the Five College Special Topics Studio Art Seminar. Over the course of the past semester, each artist has been asked to consider persona, duality, and representation through the intersection of pop culture and fine art.

December 1, 20174:30 pm-6:30 pm

Herter Art Gallery

Have you studied abroad or will you be next semester? Traveling internationally over winter break? Love hanging with friends and eating good food? If you answered yes to any of those questions, then this is the Shabbat for you.

December 4, 20177:30 pm

Fine Arts Center Concert Hall

December 5, 201711:00 am-5:00 pm

Student Union, 314

The College of Nursing is delighted to present the following talk by Dr. Carrie-Ellen Briere: "Human Milk Stem Cells: A Research Trajectory in Breastfeeding Protection and Promotion." This research focuses on the bioactive components of human milk, specifically stem cells.

December 5, 20171:00 pm-2:30 pm

Goodell Hall, 301 Conference Room

In this presentation, Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich, assistant professor of German from the University of Mary Washington, will discuss ways in which three museums commemorate the Holocaust: Yad Vashem in Jerusalem; the Jewish Museum Berlin; and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

December 5, 20174:00 pm

Hasbrouck Hall, 111

Nobel Peace Prize recipient Richard Moyes will discuss the role of states and civil society in framing issues of concern and in developing legal responses. It will focus on the tensions and uncertainties that form part of the lived experience of that work - but that often get lost in formal narratives and histories.

December 6, 201711:00 am-5:00 pm

Student Union, 314

Head out after work to eat, drink and share holiday cheer with the Greater Boston Alumni Network. Wear your most festive holiday attire and join fellow alumni to unwind and socialize at The Point, located in the North End.

December 7, 20177:30 pm

Bowker Auditorium

Matthew Zapruder is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Come On All You Ghosts, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Sun Bear, Copper Canyon 2014, and Why Poetry, a book of prose, from Ecco Press in August 2017.

December 8, 201711:00 am-5:00 pm

Student Union, 314

Based on 16 years of ethnographic fieldwork in an multi-ethnic and multiracial, high-poverty school in the American southwest, Calvin Morrill's research complicates our vision of urban youth, along the way revealing the resilience of students in the face of the carceral disciplinary tactics.

December 8, 20172:00 pm-3:30 pm

Commonwealth Honors College Building, 160 E

December 8, 20174:00 pm-9:00 pm

All Dining Commons

Erika Renée Williams is an assistant professor of African American literature and culture at Emerson College, where she teaches courses reflecting her interests in modernist and contemporary African American literature; theories of race, gender, and sexuality; and formulations of cultural and personal identity.

December 11, 201711:00 am-5:00 pm

Student Union, 314

Steven Hollon of Vanderbilt University will present his research findings that raise concerns that cognitive therapy provided in combination with medication does little to prevent recurrence of depression.

December 11, 20174:00 pm-9:00 pm

All Dining Commons

Open to campus and Amherst Family Center (AFC) families with young children, Dinner On Us (DOU) is a parent education workshop series offered most Monday evenings during the academic year. This week's topic is "Raising A Bi-lingual Child and Benefits of Dual Language Learning For Children."

December 12, 2017

December 12, 201711:00 am-5:00 pm

Student Union, 314

Cristina Scheibe Wolff will discuss the use of gender and emotions in the rhetoric of resistance movements to dictatorships in countries of the Southern Cone (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay).

December 12, 201712:00 pm-1:00 pm

Herter Hall, 601

The Economics Undergraduate Research Assistantships (EURA) program engages students in cutting-edge economics beyond the classroom. Each semester, undergraduate researchers majoring in economics work with faculty members to gain valuable research assistant experience on research projects. At this poster session, students will present the research projects they’ve been working on to the wider community.

December 12, 20175:00 pm-8:00 pm

University Club

Almost all of us have stories we wish others can hear. Shana gives you the opportunity to not only share your own story, but to also collectively perform and showcase other stories as well. Join Shaha for an educational, entertaining and thought-provoking performance.

December 13, 20174:00 pm-9:00 pm

All Dining Commons

Nikkomo is an annual Narragansett celebration started by the Nipmuc and is celebrated by some southern New England tribes. The gathering involves gift giving signifying the days in which those who had the most gave to those who had the least. In doing so, the entire community was cared for equally.

December 14, 20174:00 pm-9:00 pm

All Dining Commons

Head out after work to eat, drink and share holiday cheer with the New York City Metro Alumni Network. Wear your most festive holiday attire and join fellow alumni to unwind and socialize at Professor Thom's.